#gen

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#birth #education #gender #gender-realization #upbringing

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#prayer #regeneration #change

Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of poetry is also true of DNA: 'all meanings depend on the key of interpretation.' What makes us human, and what makes each of us his or her own human, is not simply the genes that we have buried into our base pairs, but how our cells, in dialogue with our environment, feed back to our DNA, changing the way we read ourselves. Life is a dialectic. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#genes #genome #life #literature #science

On visioning: In visioning, you’re not using your limited perception of life to manifest. You’re using your mind for the purpose it was actually created — as an avenue of awareness, a receiving station to pick up the divine ideas being broadcast everywhere. And once you catch this vision, it doesn’t just manifest, it changes you, stretches you, transforming you into a person who can handle the higher vibration and larger manifestation. You don’t just get the new Mercedes, you get Mercedes Consciousness. You “become the change you want to see. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #change

Nothing Can Change Your Past...But Not Worrying About Things To Come, Will Help Change Future. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #change

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#africa #bad #bad review #decide #difficult

Today...major actors and actresses develop their own projects or, at the very least, cherry-pick their roles carefully to suit not only their tastes but also whatever image they have cultivated to present to their public. Most major stars have their own production companies through which such projects are developed and even financed. While the biggest male stars of that time did in fact have their own production companies--Jimmy Stewart, Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, and Burt Lancaster, to name a few--and thus exerted creative and financial control over their careers, that was not the case with female stars. But Marilyn Monroe was about to change that. ↗

— J. Randy Taraborrelli

#marilyn-monroe #old-hollywood #progress #change

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#gender #life #change

To create the needed change...We must become angry enough to stand up & speak out against all ABUSE & INJUSTICE against Humanity! Wrong is Wrong and NEVER can be Right! ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #change

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. ↗

— Edward Bond

#comes #containing #democracy #genes #ideas